Thrives best on a border of peat-earth in a sheltered shady 
situation; where it flowers from May to July, or longer, 
Some of the corollas are frequently found to ‘be sterile; 
and, according to Michaux, it would appear that the species 
was dicecious, the flowers being sometimes barren through- 
out in individual plants. 
Stem recumbent, slender, round, branched, ferruginously 
villous. Leaves patent, hardish, membranous, elliptic with 
a cordate base, or ovate, obtuse with a small point, covered 
with a harsh russet pubescence, impressedly veined, shining 
beneath, russet-green above, sometimes nearly two inches 
long: petioles pubescent, channelled, firm. Racemes both 
axillary and terminal, crowdedly fewflowered, seldom one- 
flowered; peduncles and pedicles very short; bractes subulate, 
hirsute,. two to the upper flower, and placed crosswise with 
the leaflets of the calycle or outer calyx, one to the other 
flowers. Calycle two-leaved within the bracte and at the 
base of the pedicle, leaflets opposite ovate lanceolate cuspi- 
date, smooth, membranous, inclosing the lower part of the 
ealyx by their tops. lowers about half an inch long, or 
rather more, diffusing a pleasant bitterish smell. Calyx 
connivent, dinted at the base; /eaflets like those of the 
calycle, but rather smaller and flatter. Corolla white and 
flesh-coloured; tube cylindrical, twice the length of the 
calyx and the limb, white-bearded within; segments equal, 
oblong-oyate, smooth. Stamens just peering from the tube, 
Filaments inserted in the bottom of the corolla, subpubes- 
cent at the base. <Anthers upright, adnate, bilocular, 
linear, bent slightly inwards to the form of a crescent, and 
opening in that direction by a long double fissure, keeled 
and brown at the back: pollen grumous, cream-coloured. 
Germen covered with white shaggy pubescence, placed on 
a thick green tenfold indented disk: style a filiform shaft, 
equal to the stamens, green, smooth: stigma obtuse, quin-’ 
tuply indented. : 
. The drawing made from a plant sent in April by Messrs, 
Bassington and Hockley, Kingsland Nursery. ! 
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a Bracte, calycle or under calyx, and calyx. 6 Corolla dissected verti- 
cally. ¢ Pistil and hypogynous disk. 
